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12/11/2013 8:15PM

200,000 People Compete to Be the First Settlers on Mars

Dutch non-profit company Mars One promises to start a human colony on Mars by 2025. 200,000 people worldwide have applied and Mars One has picked suppliers to build a lander and a satellite for the mission. WSJ's Monika Vosough reports. (Photo: Mars One)

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I ... I ... do you want to live ... and die on my list ... the nonprofit companies moving closer to making it a reality ... last month announced that it has hired to its suppliers to Lockheed Martin answer a satellite technology ... to build a robotic a lender and a communications satellite friend an admission to the red planet in two thousand AEDT ... this first mission is supposed to prove the technology safety ... the four minus one moves ahead with its ultimate goal of sending humans but the one way ticket to the planet by two thousand twenty five ... since the project was announced in April two thousand thirteen more than two hundred thousand people around the world have signed up to become the first settlers unlocks ... the four candidates were selected will undergo eight years of intensive training but they will lead to deal with long periods of isolation ... and once they are on Mars there will be no way back ... the technology for intense eye doesn't exist ... after the first humans arrived in two thousand twenty five minus one plans to send an additional group of settlers ... every two years ... last month estimates will cost six billion dollars to get a first for people to Mars ... the funding will come from artists and sponsors ... crowdfunding contain ... the recently announced TV reality show about the first settlers